The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-03

Christ church, Oxford, was a liberal patron of the weed, and Porson smoked many a church-warden. On one occasion it is related that he ssdes- patched bottle of alchohol, beside smoking any number of cigars"
 Sir Isaac Newton indulged freely in this recreation, and Ben Jonson was an equally ardent admirer of it. Byron, again, was an enthusiastic ad- mirer of the weed and wrote in it's praise. Thomas Howell was a great smoker and in his "Familiar Letters" gives various allusions to his fondness for tobacco. Thus, acknowledging on one occasion present of tobacco, he writes: "I received that choice parcel of tobacco your servant brought me, for which l send you as many returns of gratitude as there were grains therein, which are many, but too few to express my acknowledgement" Even the very ashes he praises, adding, "'Tis we'll known that the medicinal virtues of the ashes are very many, but they are so common that I spare tuC luScLLluR OL tucLl Here.
 Thomas Carlyle was steady smoker, as also is the present poet laureate. Campbell and Moore both delighted in their pipe, and John Gilson Lockhart was seldom seen without cigar Jerald and Fielding literally putfed at their leisure, and the late J. M. Kemble, author of "The Seasons in England" was an in- veterate lover of the weed.
 According to an old Johnian it was no small pleasure "to get Paley on cold winters night to put up his legs, stir the fire and fill a long Dutch pipe. He formally declined any punch, but nevertheless drank it up as fast as we replenished his glass. He would smoke any quantity of to- bacco and drink any given quantity of punch"
 Van Belmont, travelling in desert places, argues that tobacco is benefi- cial, and states that it protected him for long periods against hunger or fatigue, and in addition he adds that he could make prolonged journeys on foot with no other SuDStance.
 Leaving, however, our own country, may it be remembered that General Grant was much devoted to good cigar, and, indeed his love for this recreation long ago became proverbial. Similarly, Count Bismarck is no less fond of this mode of solace, and on one occasion, when about to light bis cigar, observed to friend that "the value of a good cigar is best under- stood when it is the last you possess, and there is no chance of getting an- other"
 M. Guizot, when found one evening by lady smoking his pipe, was asked by her, in astonishment, "What, you smoke, and yet have arrived at SO great an age?"
 "Ah, madam" replied the veteran statesman and historian, "if I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago."
 Victor Hugo was another veteran smoker, and whenever his friends happened to call they were invaribly invited to join him by tho fireside and share the honored pipe. Of the many striking anecdotes told of the fascinat- ing charm of smoking, and they are legion in number, it is related how, in the year 1843, the convicts of the prison of Epinal, France, who had been for some time deprived of tobac- co, actually rose in revolt, their cry being, "Tobacco or deathl"
 Further, when Colonel Segbourne was marching in the interior of Sur imam against negro rebels, and the soldiers had to bear most awful hard ships, they smoked paper, they chewed leaves and leather, and found the loss of tobacco the greatest of all their trials and torments.
 Lily, in the "History of His Life and Times" mentions clergyman of Buckinghamshire who was "so given over to tobacco and drink that when he had no tobacco he would cut the bell-ropes and smoke them" Eccen- tric as such an act may seem, there are nevertheless cases on record of the most extraordinary expedients re- sorted to for the supplying the defi- ciency of tobacco.
 Goethe's Bald Head.